hehe... that's why I avoided commenting on XML in particular because I don't know ;).

But from experience LWP::Simple and others have been... well simplified versions of the other versions. You could certainly build web spiders/robots with LWP::Simple, but there are a lot of conventions that aren't taken into account and you would have to implement yourself.

A module 'accounting' repository would be great. It would be nice to know which modules are maintained and not... who used which for what reason... all that. Maybe the powers that be will decide to implement that feature some day :)